Festive
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The Franco-Catalan company interweaves genres and practices to seek how to “make a world” and create shows designed as festive rituals, calling upon totem figures and plastic material.
“Break down barriers”, “erase boundaries”, “mix genres” : if these objectives are increasingly regularly claimed in the world of live performance, few creations can boast of presenting the versatility of Baro d’Evel. It is around the circus that the founders of this Franco-Catalan company based at the gates of the Pyrenees met. The discipline has long been denigrated by institutional culture, but in recent years street arts have been revalued and, this summer, Who are we ?, their latest creation is on the program at the “in” in Avignon. “Quite a symbol”, recognizes Camille Decourtye.
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In 2006, she and her partner, Blaï Mateu Trias, took over the artistic direction of the young collective Baro d’Evel. She, a horse rider and gymnast; he, the son of a clown with a passion for the visual arts: their colorful world intertwines acrobatics, painting, poetry, and music. When they left school, the couple quickly abandoned acrobatic virtuosity (even if their shows were always peppered with technical prowess) to devote themselves to something “more fragile”, a search for the intangible, for a “rebound point with the world”. This quest goes through the body, a true matrix: “It is by engaging him that we find what to summon, explains Camille Decourtye again. The gesture here
